A mother is seeking legal action after alleging that a male teacher subjected her young daughter to severe corporal punishment, leaving visible scars on her buttocks and emotional distress.
The punishment, reportedly for excessive talking, highlights ongoing concerns about corporal punishment in Antigua and Barbuda.
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Corporal punishment he is the one that need that,the mother of that child should not allow them to tell her about no stupid law it’s child Abused in a big way. I remember as a child one teacher sent me to the principals office for coming late,knowing why I was sent there I took my books and went home.next day she ask me about it I told her my mother and father never hit me yet ,I was not going to allowed no one to hit me.so I went home if you want my parents to come they will come she just turn her face.No one should put their hands on a child your or not its child Abused there are other ways .
Look here right mi nuh wah laugh but this ya mek me so upset. Male teacher leff scars pon fumme gyal pikney batty a talk bout punishment??? Around haffa lock both arwe up when mi done cos ain’t no way you bang up ma gyal so an u dey walk bout bruise free. Stop the fooley shit!!!
Did u birth the woman child? R u her father, who gives these teachers the rite to beat ppl kids? Is this slavery, I’m highly against it
They need to band beating in school if anything just send them home or suspend them accordingly
Keep your rude ass child home then. Clearly the child gets the bad behavior from the mother. Teachers don’t get paid enough to put up with the bull crap. Some of them parents too happy monday-friray that the kids at school. If you won’t want your child being disciplined at school then raise your child better or keep them home. A belt to tha ass never kill anybody in school, if it really is “scarred” then where the evidence
Thays y u all children own way cause u all teach then nttn better they have no respect for teachers the disrespect starts at home cause half u all csnt control ur kids só they go to school with their stidy attitude half of.dem couldnt survive the 90s y the 90s kids have more sense smh if my child is being rude at school woop that @$$
All this is being said about abuse. The Bible says spare not the rod and spoil the child. We put up so much because children who are disrespectful and have no manners for the teachers are punished. Punish now better adults later. That’s why there is so much crime and drug abuse among young people. Because we as parents don’t want any one to discipline our children. It takes a village to raise our children.
“Male educator Assaulted a child”
would be more appropriate.
When the article says “corporal punishment is still in the books in Antigua and Barbuda” I wonder what relevance that has? Is the child a criminal defendant that was sentenced to corporal punishment?
The teacher had no justification for beating a child that severely. It is not on the books for children to be beaten as a sentence for the crime of talking too much.
I say call in the parents and beat them when the child misbehaves….I mean, it’s not the child’s fault they weren’t taught discipline and respect…right
That beating will surely “straighten” them out. Beat the rudeness out that student. Mother can’t handle she. Mother failed as a parent and now expect teacher to put up with the same rudeness and disrespect. Hell no!!!!
Bang dem libba b4 dem embarass you, society and the nation. Scared for the future of this country with these WAYWARD, REBELLIOUS, RUDE, DISRESPECTFUL, SPOILED ROTTEN teenagers!
Maybe the parent needs some good blows too!
That’s why children today are so rude because teachers cant punish them and some of the parents want to fight the teachers, keep your rude children at home and teach them yourself!
It’s not on the books ?? So all that beating we got in Primary school back then was corporal punishment and why didn’t our parents raised hell? I remembered Head mistress standing at the entrance with stap in hand looking for all the late comers, you taste that shit one time, the next day you’ll be running to school. We became so Americanized now, that this same mother that’s talking about legal action, I believe is also afraid of beating her own kid. Teachers job is a bitch these days.
Look at all the barbarians in this thread that thinks it’s RIGHT for an adult male to beat a child to the point of bruising her. Only poor ppl children have to go through this kind of mess. This issue would have already been outlawed if the upper echelon of Antiguan society were affected. Economic power house Antugua surely knows how to tolerate and remain a backward society when it comes to addressing ABUSE in all its forms…
Only a SICK society condones this type of ABUSE!
@save the children
Why don’t you become a minister and change it then? Life doesn’t give you blows with a belt, life kills, puts you in debt, in jail and so many other worse things than getting some lashes. People like you and some other delusional people are the reason we have children making gangs now. Discipline is needed in these kids life, if you have a problem then become a teacher and fix it on your own time otherwise do not criticize the hardworking men and women that are trying to raise the future of our country to be upstanding men and women.
Save the children. You have, by making this a class thing, hit the nail on the head. On the whole middle class children do not face this problem because, by in large, they come from a settled family situation with mother and father. They have manners and upbringing. It is the single parent families, with the overworked mother, where the indiscipline and lack of manners exist. Poor mothers are stressed out amd the fathers are non existent and irresposible. So while it may seem the way you indicate, you should identify the reasons.
We have seen the evidence in other countries with kids when they took prayer/the Bible and decipline out of school.
The alternative is way worse if you do not decipline a child.
So when God whoop our backside for turning our backs on him, is that also abuse?
There is no correction witjout punishment and decipline.
Straighten out your children before the courts and the penal system do it for you, because they certainly will.
Oh save the children, come on now, no lashes, be loving and kind to our children.
I highly condemn this act, come on now.
What I do recommend is that teachers send home the children to their parents so they handle that stress and discipline their child if they please.
Now when the child returns, if they behave in a similar way, just send them home again and continue that process until the parents get it right or they pull the child out of school or the child is expelled because clearly the problem is with the child which leads right back to the parents who are failing to raise that child.
To the parents, if you know you can’t raise a child stop breed, that is for both man and woman.
I was told once by another parent that they would tell their children to beat up my child for no particular reason, seems to be they are a bully.
I just smiled and thought to myself…….That may be the last you would be seen in this part of the hemisphere. that told me a lot about the children who attends school these days, it all comes from the parents. God soon come but in the mean time I will defend my own.
@Devils Advocte, go tell the frustrated teachers what to do, not me. My nephews son was beaten by a teacher until he suffered an asthma attack. I found out later that my nephew 🍆 it & quit the teacher so she took it out on his son. Children are not dogs. Teachers shouldn’t expect to never have any issues with children. There have got to be other methods of discipline that to brutalize children. You are as much of a barbarian as that man. “People like me are why there are gangs?” So from my comment you know everything there is to know about me? I guess Antigua’s lack of economic opportunities, loss of mortality, being lazy, being influenced by others have nothing to do with youngsters joining gangs. No wonder Antigua is still so backwards in this area; people like you support the barbarity
This beating of children in schools need to stop,like yesterday.Some teachers take out their vengeance on children in their classes.They would come to school already mad.The parent should bring this matter to the Court.
no it does NOT need to stop! If the parents were doing their job a HOME, then the teachers wouldn’t have to resort to such measures
I think mabe this child was rude in class, but at the same time that teacher should used another method. Two wrong don’t make a right..
I am not against spanking but some teachers abuse students. I was beaten severely by a Spanish teacher, Guyanese, and a math teacher, Jamaican, while attending school in Antigua.
I had marks all over. The guyanese beat me and had me stand up with eyes close and hands up because I told him stop sexualizing students, that time it was a female student name Kerri. The math teacher beat me until I drop on the floor and body marked up because I wanted to use the bathroom and he said no to another student but I was still going. I had surgery on that part of my body years prior. He got upset because I was still going and beat me like he wanted to kill me. I dropped on the floor in pain and he still continue to beat me, this always drunk, good nothing, abusive Jamaican math teacher Wilson.
I got whopping from Mr. Williams, a principal, but that man was caring and with good intent. I cannot honestly say the actions of the other 2 teacher were abusive, cruel and evil. I do not hate but cannot them. And for those idiot students who were in class and can recall this but refuse to, I think it was form 1 or 2, God Bless you all.
I think some teachers should be able to spank and for limited reasons but not every wrong doing and not every teacher. Some are outright evil.
@Devil, you can discipline children without breaking their hand or finger, and toes or mark them up, have their school shirt marked up in red blood and the student hoping their parent will not see the blood marking and ask what happen and then you have no choice but to speak the truth and say you were doing something as simple as speaking in class to your friend and fear getting more lashes. Children can be treated better and not to this extreme and still get the good result @Devil.
The children you are talking about becoming criminals are the ones who are not getting enough opportunities to do constructive things. Their parents cannot afford it or do not want to make the sacrifices for it and the government is not innovative to provide these activities and or more focused on themself and theirs.
There are some people who went through a lot and promise to make a positive difference and to always be fair based on their past experiences.
The teachers union MUST advocate for working cameras(audio/video) in schools every sector of schools campuses, except in the restrooms.
Protect the students and the teachers all at once. It’s a waste of time, in this day and age to be beating the same #Dead_Goat [Corporal Punishment].
Teachers should not be disciplinarians nor baby sitters in their classroom(s), because it will create push backs and conflicts. It’s the ARROGANCE which is permeating the Culture.
And, please; this [religion] in schools as a method of discipline and control of children behavior is not, a one size fits all because time and time again, religious institutions have being proven to be inundated with sexual, physical and psychological abuse. So, choose your poison well.
Ras Smood aka Jumbee_Picknee
De’Ole Dutty Peg🦉Garrat_Bastard
Vere C. Edwards
@ras. We agree on many things in our small sample size dialogue on this forum, but I must say that religion and God is two different things.
Maybe you think I’m referring to the religious institution ( which I haven’t ventured into in over 24yrs)when I say the words God,prayer and decipline,but no, I was really speaking to those very terms as they are in their very ensense.
God is tantimont to everything we do, everything my brother, and that has nothing to do with Pentecost,Muslim or Hindu.
History and reality has proven what I’ve said to be correct..without decipline and correction, we have what we have today in our society among the kids.
But yo..you know me and you a big friend..but just saying.
Some of these comments show why our children, and at extention, our society is going down the wrong path. The child was obviously disruptive to the class. I’m a teacher, and there’s nothing more distracting than when students are talking while you’re trying to teach and refuse to stop talking. Teach your children at home to be more respectful, it will take them places.
PS– I have never seen a teacher punish a child for absolutely no reason. Whether the child admits or acknowledges it or not, they would have done something wrong, or “perceived” to have done something wrong.
@uuuum, that is the dumbest and most ignorant, and uncaring statement you have made. Do you know how many students in my life time got unnecessary punishment because a teacher did not like the student or the student’s family? Or because a student say do not sexualize a student and lick your lips and say what you would do with her, a student, while you are a spanish teacher. I just did nkt like it. Let student interact with each other that way, not you as a teacher. Then you punish a student for saying it is inappropriate and the student’s stupidly complied and fear telling his or her parents. You think it is only one side to a story?
Want to say thanks to those teachers who administered corporal punishment back in our time and for our parents who supported them. We have grown to become law abiding citizens.
@Uumm, couldn’t the disruption have been easily solved by placing the student away from the other students? Do you think she would’ve continued to talk to herself? As a teacher, the only solution you can come up with is to hit a child for being talkative? Where is your imagination; or is it just easier to hit the child? Are there any considerations given to the possiblity that some children may have medical conditions that causes this and or other behavioral issues? Imo, the teachers that chooses to hit a child first aren’t doing this job for the love of it. It’s just a means to an end for them.
if hardened and habitual and repeat offenders in the penal system are not subjected to any form of corporal punishment for their unlawful offences why then is the practice still being done in schools. If the child was talking excessively in class, did said teacher ask her to stop.IF not then the beating is unjustified and he should face criminal charges of assault and abuse of a minor child. Whatever happened to alternative forms of punishment like detention or having the child write 500 lines I Must Not Talk In Class.
At the end of the day teacher’s need to remember it’s not their children and they would feel the same way some of the parents feel that’s abuse i wouldn’t stand for that if the girl died what would be out come.
…@Islanman26…
I get the thought, that [god] and religion can be, are viewed in, of and from different perspectives , and even more so, when it comes to ‘discipline,’ codes of conduct in a moral construct.
What we have to acknowledge, in today’s dispensation, issues of this nature have to be dealth with from a practical standpoint with practical solutions which creates, a balanced outcome, that serves all.
I guarantee you, if there was a working 360* Camera (a/v), in that classroom, recording all parties, we would not be having this conversation.
Ras Smood aka Jumbee_Picknee
De’ole Dutty Peg🦉Garrat_Bastard
Vere C. Edwards
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